More on Hudye Farms...

[ajl]

So Granite wheat resists hail. We NEED this variety registered immediately as it hails on our farm every year.

[seabass]

I think your right John. There's probably more to the story or it is just retribution for past misgivings. If not the CWB is an ignorant animal.

[agriman]

I can tell you that this is a case of unbridled
Retribution. Hudye is too big of an operator for
the wheat boards comfort level. He has to be cut
down to size, just as the young man in the
YouTube video must not be allowed to get a
toehold. The wheat board is the new Stasi.
Hudye deserves your support, not your second
guessing.

[bucket]

Can someone explain how blending out 122 tonnes of unregistered hrsw is any different than blending out fusarium infected feed wheat into a milling grade??

The cwb promotes the practice every year, and bypasses CGC regulations in doing so.

[TOM4CWB]

Bucket,

Or what about the tens of thousands of tonnes of winter wheat that gets blended into our CWRS every year.

At the very worst... the CERS registered variety could easily have been blended as a contrasting class like CPS or CWRW to meet spec for CWRS shipment.

[GALAXIE500]

This is an interesting story about Hudye Farms. The ironic thing is that every elevator out there blends some sort of off grade junk in their cars when they ship them . I know this because I worked for Sask Pool for 12 years, and thats how we got most of our grade gains / slush fund for the year! There were times when we would put cps, grandin, w wheat, etc into every car that went out, all within tolerances, but still it made the company money. How it works now I don't know, because I have not been there for 8 years. I am sure they still do it. The system we have doesnt like Hudye because they are beating them at their own game, and Hudye got caught.

[furrowtickler]

Exactly galaxie, I would bet every elevator point in western canada does this at some level with the wheat boards approval.

[bucket]

Seems the judge might look at the practice of blending and throw the whole thing out with costs.

How is the cwb going to defend this by saying "we don't blend" when their own website promotes it and the changing of CGC standards to do so?

[Jay-mo]

I think Galaxie may have nailed it. Hudye has been playing the same game the elevators and the CWB do as a regular course of business. That is, blending in varieties within normally acceptable limits.
That would explain the malisciousness of the CWB's action against Hudye's contract.

[wmoebis]

Not sticking up for either side here.

The differance here is NON REG variety. Yes you can blend classes or varieties up to grade spec but not 'non reg varieties'.

Ask any elevator manager they will tell you the same. Elevators do it and some farmers blend on the farm wooc's and ocg's up to grade spec.